David Waelder Posted November 1, 2013 Report Share Posted November 1, 2013 Almost certainly a MItchell in a blimp. The blimp looks a little off-standard but the magazine says "NC 34" NC is an abbreviation for "Newsreel camera." That's a MItchell model. Until Panavision became popular and the Arriflex 35 BL became available (early 1970s), virtually all Hollywood movies, if not three-strip Technicolor, were shot with a Mitchell. It was a noisy camera but had a very dependable intermittent movement with very good registration. The Mitchell movement is the template for the Panavision movement. For sound work, the NC camera would be mounted in a blimp to contain the sound of the transport. When the blimp was made by MItchell, the camera was known as a BNCR (Blimped Newsreel Camera Reflex). The earlier models were not reflex - only reflex by rackover. (The camera viewfinder could look through the lens only when the whole body was racked-over to a viewing position. For shooting, the camera was racked back to filming position and the operator looked through a parallax corrected viewfinder.) The iconic BNCR was reflex. But this particular Mitchell example was (most probably) not reflex, not a BNCR, only an NC in a blimp fabricated by another company. David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VASI Posted November 1, 2013 Report Share Posted November 1, 2013 Amazing Mr. Waelder! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoom Posted May 30, 2014 Report Share Posted May 30, 2014 not sooo long time ago - anyway a historical photo showing the technological change: (from an exhibition about the history of swiss film production...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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